mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence

Submitted by gioris on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 07:33.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Το είπε...: Douglas Adams

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